Chapter 199: True Persons Duel, A Million Corpses Fall!

The voice of True Person Qingcheng Feixue rode the boundless waves of the Milky Way, spreading across the world, instantly silencing the four directions of heaven and earth.

Who dares to fight her?

Instantly, countless True Persons felt a resonance; one by one, they opened their eyes, gazing toward the direction beyond the seas, their vision filled with inquiry.

Will you truly fight?

Some True Persons, not minding the trouble, even felt a faint expectation; after all, the world had been at peace for so long, and the last Great Calamity of a millennium had to be traced back five thousand years!

Recalling those days, a Great Calamity even claimed more than one True Person; the last one to fall was 【True Person Tianyun Mingguang】, who is now the Daoist Daoist Hong Yun. The 【Grand Luminous Treasure Grotto-Heaven】 shattered with a boom, blood rain fell from the sky, and all things mourned together; that scene had not been seen for many years.

Today, could it be seen once more?

"Amitabha!"

Only the sound of a Buddhist chant was heard; the 【Bodhisattva Precious Vase Water Moon】 of the Pure Land was the first to disperse his aura, paying no attention at all to True Person Qingcheng Feixue's provocation.

Seeing this, the True Persons were not surprised.

The Bodhisattvas of the Pure Land, everyone knows, can hold their own within the Pure Land, but outside they are somewhat weak; choosing to yield is only natural.

Similarly, the Son of Heaven of the Dao Court was the second to disperse his aura.

Instantly, the gazes of the True Persons fell upon Jiangnan, upon the young True Person with red lips and white teeth, his hand resting on his sword at his knee, atop the Sky-Edge Cliff of the Yushu Jiange.

The young True Person remained silent.

He saw him lower his eyelids, glancing at the long sword before his knee; this was his innate flying sword, with which he had once fought his way to the perfection of Foundation Establishment.

However, since attaining the Jin Dan, this sword had never been unsheathed again; even when destroying the Wraith-Ghost Dao, he had only unleashed a sword qi, never truly drawing the blade. Now, a thousand years later, can this sword still be unsheathed? Is it still sharp? Does he still possess the sword heart of old?

"Heh."

The young True Person suddenly raised his head, as if locking eyes with True Person Qingcheng Feixue far beyond the seas, then suddenly smiled: "Are you stirring my mind?"

"Xue Feihong, do you truly wish to fight me?"

To this, True Person Qingcheng Feixue's response was simple and direct: "You do not seem like a sword cultivator at all; you are too unsatisfying. Do you wish to follow in Daoist Hong Yun's footsteps?"

"Come out and fight, and perhaps there is still a chance."

As the words fell, the young True Person fell silent once more, then turned to glance again at the Foundation Establishment True Person behind him, before closing his eyes and sinking into deep thought.

At this very moment, he thought of another person.

"Tingyou."

He indeed did not seem like a sword cultivator; if he were a true sword cultivator, he would not have sought the Golden Opportunity before Tingyou in the past, but would have fought Tingyou to the death directly.

"Enough; one must still strive for a future life."

The young True Person opened his eyes, his resolve already made.

The next second, this 【True Person Chengtian Zhengde】 vanished from the Sky-Edge Cliff where he had sat in meditation for a hundred years, while above the firmament, a star suddenly blazed brightly!

Seeing this scene, True Person Qingcheng Feixue also laughed aloud to the sky.

"Excellent!"

As the words fell, True Person Qingcheng Feixue also vanished; by now, the two had retracted their heaven-and-earth-spanning Dharma bodies, leaving only their respective Fruit Seats manifest.

The next second, the sun hid and the moon sank, all stars dimmed, and only the two stars formed by their Fruit Seats radiated heavenly light.

At the same time, Jiangbei and Jiangnan also produced strange phenomena; snow fell in a flurry, mountain floods burst forth, and houses and fortifications everywhere were assaulted.

Some houses were swept away, while others still stood firm.

This was not a natural disaster, but a human calamity; because the two True Persons were clashing, heaven and earth naturally resonated, giving rise to such unnatural scenes.

This was limited only to the mortal world; at this moment, all Dao foundation techniques in the world related to 【Wall-Bound Earth】 and 【Stream-Below Water】 also produced the same reaction. Those cultivating the corresponding techniques felt a strong aversion toward the other party in their hearts, along with a certain strange appetite.

Kill him! Eat it!

Instinct told them that as long as they slew the cultivator opposite them, their own cultivation would immediately surge forward; this was the Fruit Seat's blessing, their own opportunity!

In an instant, blood stained the earth.

Except for the Heaven-Touching Cloud Sea of the Holy Sect, the Heaven-Climbing Dao Abyss of the Yushu Jiange, and some great powers suppressed by True Persons, at this very moment, chaos reigned across the world!

Cultivators practicing 【Stream-Below Water】 and those practicing 【Wall-Bound Earth】 could hardly control the killing intent in their hearts; even clansmen, friends, and even husband and wife turned against each other in this moment, fighting to the death without regard for life or death; only Foundation Establishment True Persons could barely maintain a shred of clarity.

When True Persons duel, a million corpses shall lie fallen, and the world shall don white mourning!

Beyond the seas, Lu Yang looked up in confusion.

If, when True Person Qingcheng Feixue slew everyone in one breath, he could still barely discern the changes, now he could see nothing at all.

It was only a call that woke him from his confusion.

Lu Yang barely withdrew his gaze, only to see that at some unknown time, Patriarch Tingyou had stood beside him, a few traces of delighted smiles now on his face.

"Zhengde... that old thing from the Yushu Jiange is losing ground."

Hearing this, Lu Yang asked curiously, "Can Patriarch see their duel clearly?"

"I cannot see clearly."

Patriarch Tingyou shook his head: "It is just that in my life, I cultivated 【Wall-Bound Earth】 to the perfection of Foundation Establishment; even in death, I retain some faint resonance."

"I can clearly feel that my strength has weakened... this has nothing to do with my state, but rather because the Lord of 【Wall-Bound Earth】 is losing ground; the Fruit Seat transfers the pressure it receives down to the Foundation Establishment True Persons below, reflecting on us and causing our Dao foundations and divine arts to weaken."

"However, it is still early."

Speaking thus, Patriarch Tingyou shook his head again: "These are merely the aftershocks of the True Persons' duel; truly determining victory or defeat will likely take some time."

As the words fell, he glanced at Lu Yang once more and shook his head:

"Pity you do not cultivate 【Wall-Bound Earth】."

"Otherwise, at this moment, killing a few True Persons whose Dao foundations cultivate 【Stream-Below Water】 would likely bring the Fruit Seat's favor immediately, and breaking through the realm would be greatly within reach."

"However, doing so would allow 【Wall-Bound Earth】 to possibly reverse its decline and suppress 【Stream-Below Water】 once more; although for True Persons, such changes in the Fruit Seat offer only a tiny improvement to themselves, in a life-and-death struggle, it might become the straw that breaks the camel's back."

"I see..."

Hearing this, Lu Yang instantly gained understanding; so Foundation Establishment True Persons still had such a function for Jin Dan True Persons! No wonder they cultivated Foundation Establishment True Persons!

This was a question he had long held.

Since there are only thirty Fruit Positions in the world, why don't the Jin Dan True Monarchs who have ascended simply kill off all the Foundation Establishment True Persons whose Fruit Positions are tied to their own?

Wouldn't that eliminate all competitors?

Otherwise, like Hong Yun, after falling from his Fruit Position he was suppressed by Master Chongguang — who knows how aggrieved he felt, a downright disgrace among the Jin Dan True Monarchs.

Looking at it now, there must indeed be another reason.

No wonder they say only after breaking through to Foundation Establishment does one count as a 'true person' — because Foundation Establishment True Persons can, to a certain extent, influence the struggle for True Monarch!

But on its own, this alone doesn't seem to be enough.

"Although they can influence the True Monarchs' magical duels, does it work only when there's a duel? There must be a deeper reason, something important tied to the True Monarchs' cultivation."

Thinking this far, Lu Yang did not dare to probe any deeper.

Compared to all that, the harvest from looting the corpses pleased Lu Yang far more — a storage pouch stuffed with treasure-light; a sweep of his divine sense revealed four superior spirit treasures!

"Indeed, kill and arson bring a golden belt!"

In ordinary days, how rare are superior spirit treasures? Wondrously heaven-formed, they almost grant a Foundation Establishment True Person an additional minor innate divine ability, giving them the upper hand in magical duels from then on.

Before today, in his hands only the 【Investigate Heaven Instrument】 and the 【Ashi Sword】 could be considered superior.

After today, he had four more in hand!

The wealthiest among them was Ye Xingfeng — besides that one natal flying sword, the 【Star River Sword Pill】, he actually carried two more superior spirit treasures on him.

Ying Tongshou was slightly worse, but still contributed one superior spirit treasure.

Of course, all of it now came cheap to him, not to mention the half a true treasure left behind by the Innate Dao Calamity after its death — the 【Imperial Mansion Golden Seal Doushuai True Decree】!

This round of corpse-looting was simply a great harvest!

(End of chapter)